Spaceman Spiff Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 http://www.cracked.com/article_16532_5-greatest-things-ever-accomplished-while-high.html I personally think #2 takes the cake. Didn't know that Crick was tripping when he discovered the double helix though. I don't do drugs, but I figured this thread could get pretty entertaining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 also... PCR (a really important bioengineering technique) was invented by a guy who was tripping on acid he got a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis In a Q&A interview published in the September 1994 issue of California Monthly, Mullis said, "Back in the 1960s and early '70s I took plenty of LSD. A lot of people were doing that in Berkeley back then. And I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took." [15] During a symposium held for centenarian Albert Hofmann, Hofmann revealed that he was told by Nobel-prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis that LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences.[16] drugs are powerful tools when used in non habit forming ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rincewind Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The Grateful Dead rip Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain - 5/8/1977, Barton Hall - Cornell University. Pure ****ing beauty. Todd Snider wrote a song about Doc Ellis throwing the no hitter on acid. Great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoEd Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Recieved the only A+ in my English Lit class my Senior year for the paper I wrote on Beouwolf. Smoked a bowl, put on some Black Sabbath and let the creative juices flow. It was so good the teacher begged to read to the entire class. This is nothing compared to all the conquests I made into girls panties while flying high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Toe Jam Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Obviously, the best thing to happen because of two people being high was my birth. Thanks, mom. Thanks, dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rincewind Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 (No way were those dudes sober) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rincewind Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Todd Snider wrote a song about Doc Ellis throwing the no hitter on acid. Great song. See: dock ellis didnt think he would pitch that day back in 1970 when he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark a little bit differently so by the time he hit the bullpen half the world had melted away thats about the time coach murtaugh said hey dock your pitching today taking the ground the mound turned into the icing on a birthday cake the lead off man came up and turned into a dancing rattle snake the crowd tracked back and forth in waves of color under the sun the ball turned into a silver bullett his arm into a gun i took a look all around the world one time finally discovered you cant judge a book three up three down for three straight innings in a zero zero tie as all those batters names came ringing from some voice out of the sky hallucinating halloween scenes each new swing of the bat his sinker looked like it was falling off a table but nobody was hallucinating that i took a look all around the world one time finally discovered you cant judge a book by the top of the fifth he was up one to nothing and giving the padres fits by the top of the seventh he was up two to nothing and they still had'nt got any hits with one out left to go in the game the batter looked like a little child the birthday caking was shaking and those waves of color were going wild when he finally mowed the last man down he was high as he had ever been laughing to the sound of the world going around completely unaware of the win and while the papers would say he was scattered that day he was pretty as a pitcher could be the day dock ellis of the pittsburg pirates threw a no hitter on lsd i took a look all around the world one time finally discovered you cant judge a book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 http://www.cracked.com/article_16532_5-greatest-things-ever-accomplished-while-high.htmlI personally think #2 takes the cake. Didn't know that Crick was tripping when he discovered the double helix though. I don't do drugs, but I figured this thread could get pretty entertaining Hmmm...I seem to recall hearing that after working on it for such a long time the structure came to him in a dream when he dreamt of two snakes twisting around each other. Of course, maybe he was having some type of acid flashback in his dream. I think honorable mention should go to Edgar Allen Poe and his writings since he spent alot of time getting high on opium and laudanum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 #1 explains so much of the Torah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Best drug literature. The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Collected Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Book of Revelation Naked Lunch by William Burroughs Music Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Blonde on Blonde Hotel California Birth of Cool Exodus Exile on Main Street Sports Teams 1986 New York Mets 1977 Porltand Trailblazers 1987 Miami Hurricanes 1986 New York Giants 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateCitySkin Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Lots of great writers have been high as ****... I got my best grades in College on a big ole pot bender... Straight A's... Next semester I sobered up and I got straight B's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/snowboard/articles/board11.htm This guy won an Olympic GOLD MEDAL while stoned off his teakettle. Edit: He was subsequently stripped of it. the IOC claimed pot was a performance ENHANCING drug. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateCitySkin Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/snowboard/articles/board11.htm This guy won an Olympic GOLD MEDAL while stoned off his teakettle. Edit: He was subsequently stripped of it. the IOC claimed pot was a performance ENHANCING drug. :doh: I always felt he deserved two medals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 This guy won an Olympic GOLD MEDAL while stoned off his teakettle. You just wrote "stoned off his teakettle." That sounds like something my grandmother would say. Congrats, you old fartknocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 You just wrote "stoned off his teakettle."That sounds like something my grandmother would say. Congrats, you old fartknocker. What can i say? I make the old new again. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance04 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I love number one the most because it's more plausible then the version most around here seem to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Obviously, the best thing to happen because of two people being high was my birth.Thanks, mom. Thanks, dad. I literally LOL'd. But I guess that explains the way you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulRebel Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 According to the original article ( http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/960407.html ) if Moses was on a substance it wasn't shrooms but most likely acacia. I feel Moses did have a true experience on the top of Mt. Sinai but also know certain substances can lead you to feel more spiritually in tune. But pitching a no-hitter on acid would be a lot harder than taking down 10 rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mufumonk Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 According to the original article ( http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/960407.html ) if Moses was on a substance it wasn't shrooms but most likely acacia. I feel Moses did have a true experience on the top of Mt. Sinai but also know certain substances can lead you to feel more spiritually in tune. But pitching a no-hitter on acid would be a lot harder than taking down 10 rules. John was the one that was probably dropping shrooms while in exile on Patmos. It definitely explains Revelations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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